Lin Gao Qiming

Chapter 1185 Shanghai General Number
Zhao Yingong was overjoyed, but he still had to make a good gesture, and immediately said that he would not accept the charter as a share, but the four big sand ships and the sailors on them were going to take risks. Even if Mr. Shen was loyal, he personally He had to make an explanation to the Shen family, and immediately took out six 1000 taels of Delong notes, expressing his willingness to pay the deposit for the person and ship in cash.If you return safely, you can take it back.

A brand new large sand ship, with a load of about 500 shi, a contract of [-] tons, and a cost of about [-] taels.The Shen family's boat could not be a new boat, paying the deposit according to the price of the new boat was already full of sincerity.

"This can't be done!" Shen Tingyang waved his hands again and again, firmly resigning.The two debated for a long time, but Shen Tingyang still did not accept the ticket.

"However, I heard that ships going to Japan have to buy command flags from Zheng Zhilong, brother, are you prepared?"

"Brother has already made arrangements for this matter. Brother Ji Ming doesn't need to worry too much." Zhao Yingong said confidently.Zheng Zhilong's command flag?As soon as the route is opened, there will be no flags from Zheng Zhilong.

The wine didn't end until the evening, and Zhao Yingong rested in Shen's house that night.Return to Shanghai early the next morning.

After returning to Shanghai, Zhao Yingong immediately became busy.Now that the Shen family line has been hooked up, the focus of the next step is to operate in Shanghai.

He has already reached an agreement with Shen Tingyang, asking him to secretly prepare the sailors of the ship, and what he is going to do should be kept secret for the time being-Jiangnan is not Lao Zheng's territory, but there may be his commercial agent.

Zhao Yingong's temporary office in Shanghai is located outside Baodaimen, commonly known as Xiaodongmen, in Shanghai County.This is the location of the waterway wharf in the Ming Dynasty, and the Shanghai headquarters of the Qiwei Escort is located here.The area of ​​the head office is not large, because according to the long-term plan, the head office will still be relocated to the Bund by the Huangpu River in the future.This is only used as a transitional place.

Although it is transitional in nature, the construction of the house is still very elegant.It is a compound combining modernity and tradition.It's not to look different, it's purely because modern architecture is much stronger than traditional ones in terms of use effect and space utilization.It is said that the design drawings were made by the life secretary and female disciple of a veteran architect of the construction head office.However, all the elders scoffed at this—it was just a trick to raise the value of his little secret in order to make his little secret famous and get married in the future.

Zhao Yingong originally planned to build Wei's head office on the location of the Bund, and use this as a starting point to rebuild the Bund.However, after some on-the-spot investigation, it was found that the development was a bit difficult: the geology here is mostly tidal land, and because the Huangpu River is connected to the sea, it is greatly affected by the tide, and the daily tide level difference can reach 4 meters.With his current economic strength and the business situation of this time and space, it is really a foolish move to build a "New Bund".So in the end he chose to buy land and build a house near the mature Xiaodongmen Wharf in Shanghai County.

The Shanghai headquarter is still in the shape of the traditional Jiangnan large-scale hall, and sedan chairs, carriages and horses can be parked in the front yard.There is a large black lacquer plaque hanging on the main entrance, and the inscription "Qiweizhan" is written by Xu Guangqi through the relationship of the Shanghai Church.Entering the main entrance is another large courtyard, all paved with stone slabs, and only two golden hanging trees are planted in the courtyard.There are three two-story European-style buildings in the courtyard.Below is the office hall, above is the structure of the office.

The main hall is the Freight Bureau, the east hall is the Civil Credit Bureau, and the west hall is the Shanghai Office of Delong Bank.It was almost noon, when there were the most people doing business, Zhao Yingong went directly to the back from the side passage.

In the back yard are rows of warehouses: used to store transshipment goods and letters.Zhao Yingong passed directly from the passage to the third courtyard.

In the second-floor office building with three rows in the third entrance, the "Renzihao" of "Hailu" is concentrated - that is, the backstage department of the Shanghai head office of the Qiwei Escort system.Zhao Yingong also has an office here.

Mao Sansheng was waiting in the foyer—he had two jobs in one person: he was the person in charge of the Shanghai head office, and he was also the person in charge of Qiwei Zhan's Shanghai branch.In fact, it is a team with two brands.Mao Sansheng single-handedly controls the "Renzihao" in the entire south of the Yangtze River.Is a very key person.For this reason, both the Political Security Bureau and the Cheka deployed personnel through their respective channels to monitor him and the entire company.

Mao Sansheng didn't know that he was being monitored, but he understood the simple truth that he must show full loyalty when he holds great power.Therefore, since he was appointed as the person in charge of the Shanghai headquarters, he asked someone to move all his family members in Jiangxi to Lingao.

He has been busy integrating Jiangnan's logistics system these days-this is a very complicated job, which not only takes energy but also takes a lot of time.For more than a year, he has traveled to almost all counties and most towns in Jiangnan and northern Zhejiang.He has been to any place where boats are navigable. He is dark and thin, and he has initially built a logistics system from Nanjing to Hangzhou, relying on inland river boats.

This system has already begun to make profits, especially the "Minxin" business.Industry, commerce and agriculture in the south of the Yangtze River and the north of Zhejiang Province were very prosperous. There were many landowners living in the city, and there were also many commercial practitioners. There was a great demand for sending letters.

In the past, these letters were consigned by ship, with high postage, random charges, and poor security.And generally they can only take a short distance, and those that are a little farther or have a more complicated route cannot be delivered.Qiweizhan's Minxin business is operated in accordance with the model of a modern express company, which is not only more efficient, but also has a wider coverage.Generally, the towns in the south of the Yangtze River and the north of Zhejiang Province can arrive within one week from the date of delivery.In addition, a special "express mail" is launched, which is delivered by a special person and a special ship, and the time can be cut in half.

It is precisely because of this system that Zhao Yingong can conveniently direct the activities of the Hangzhou Station when he is active in Hangzhou, Shanghai and Nanjing.

Zhao Yingong and Mao Sansheng talked a few words, and asked about the recent business activities of the Shanghai General Office.Then he went to his own dedicated office.He has dedicated offices in each cabinet and branch under Hangzhou Station, which are usually locked, and only he has the key.

As soon as he entered the office, Feng Hua sent letters from various branches.For his itinerary, the sub-colon where he is located sends a bill to the sub-colons of Hangzhou Station to ensure that all the sub-colons know his whereabouts and can send reports in a timely and accurate manner.In this way, he can grasp the situation in any place and give timely instructions.This is crucial for Zhao Yingong who has to carry out multiple tasks at the same time.

The first letter that Zhao Yingong opened was from the Hangzhou station, and it was written by Feng Hua about the silkworm breeding farm in Fenghuang Mountain Villa.

After buying the Shen family, Zhao Yingong began to experiment with silkworm rearing in Wanbi Villa.A sericulture garden was specially opened up, and the Shen family was in charge.Wanbi Villa is mountainous, suitable for planting mulberry trees.Zhao Yingong transported hundreds of high-quality mulberry saplings and a batch of silkworm eggs through the Agricultural Committee, and planned to cultivate high-quality sericulture in Hangzhou.

The largest share of Sino-Japanese trade in the Edo period was raw silk.Japan needs a large amount of raw silk every year. Except for a few for its own use, most of them are made into silk and velvet for foreign trade and exported to the Dutch.It is equal to the processing industry with two ends outside.

Lingao can not provide much raw silk.Most of the raw silk purchased from the Pearl River Delta through Wanwo and business partners was sold directly to the Dutch and the British.Therefore, Zhao Yingong had to purchase Zhejiang raw silk locally.

The silk source in Zhejiang is quite abundant, as long as there is silver, it is easy to get enough raw silk for export.But Zhao Yingong was dissatisfied with the quality of the earthen silk—to be precise, he was dissatisfied by being teased by Wu Nanhai and Skaide. Zhao Yingong actually knew nothing about sericulture and silk weaving, but he heard a lot Through these two people's comments full of contempt for the country.So as soon as he got Wang Siniang's mother and daughter in Hangzhou, he immediately started to engage in the sericulture industry with great ambition.
Although China is the country of origin of sericulture, sericulture and silk weaving industries fell behind in the Qing Dynasty.Because of the neglect of breeding, the silkworm eggs of soil silkworms are constantly degraded, and the yield and quality of raw silk are also constantly deteriorating.After the Meiji Restoration, in order to expand exports, Japan spent a lot of energy on silkworm breeding, silkworm breeding guidance, and silk reeling equipment improvement, so it quickly emerged and took away the Chinese soil silk that originally occupied a major share in the international market. .And since then, Japan has been the leader in sericulture: high yields and good quality.So that in the 1920s when Fei Xiaotong and other insightful people hoped to revive the country’s silk production, they had to import silkworm eggs, technology and equipment from Japan.Almost all the first professional teachers of modern sericulture were Japanese students.

This advantage of Japan in sericulture has even been maintained until the 21st century.Dozens of excellent silkworm eggs brought from the old time and space are bred in the constant temperature and humidity farm of the silkworm farm under the Ministry of Agriculture.Among them are special varieties used to make fabrics for ties, kimonos, evening gowns, and chiffon for export, most of which were bred in Japan and raised in Brazil and Southeast Asia.The import of these silkworm eggs into China was originally strictly controlled.Fortunately, in the early ten years of the 21st century, Japan's economy was in recession for a long time, and it was obtained with a little detour.Even at the request of Wu Nanhai, the North American branch obtained a transgenic silkworm containing the spider silk protein gene, which is currently being selected and bred in the silkworm farm of the Council of Agriculture, hoping that one day it can be used to make body armor.

The climate in Lingao is not suitable for the promotion of large-scale sericulture. Therefore, as soon as the silkworm breeding farm in Fenghuang Mountain Villa was established, the Agricultural Committee transported most of the silkworm eggs to Hangzhou.With a stable breeding base, all these silkworm species, including adapted species hybridized with ancient native silkworm species, can be cultivated on a large scale.As long as there is an order, it can be outsourced to silkworm farmers.

(End of this chapter)